Yes it is indeed time for Oracle Open World. Unfortunately I will not be there speaking myself this year, but do not despair my friends, there is still plenty of goodness from the community such as these talks from my good friend Heli. She is coming all the way from Helsinki, Finland to share her knowledge. Go to one of her talks and tell her The Data Warrior sent you!

I cannot believe how fast time flies! It has been an exceptionally busy year and that is the reason I have not had time to write blog posts either. I have been speaking in amazing events like BIWA Summit, APEX Connect, Riga DevDays 2017, OTNEMEA Tour in Baku and in Madrid, BGOUG, E4, KScope17, Oracle Code Bengaluru, the first ever APEX Day in Finland, Oracle Code Seoul, POUG, and Tajikistan TechDay. Next on my list is Oracle OpenWorld. As always it will be a busy week.

I will fly to San Francisco on Thursday to attend the ACE Director briefing on Friday at the Oracle HQ. I will have three talks:

Great tip on creating a custom transformation script in SQL Developer Data Modeler (SDDM) from the awesome David Schleis:

Recently on the Data Modeler Forum, I came across this question:

Is it possible to mirror domain comments, from Domain Administration into attribute “Comments in RDBMS”? Would like to mirror these to the ddl so they can be then available in column comments in the database.

I knew that one of the example transformation scripts provided with Data Modeler copies the column “Comments” property to “Comments in RDBMS”, so I thought I would point this out to the questioner, and that would be that. But….

A new versioning number system has been put in place and applies to both SQL Developer and SQL Developer Data Modeler (SDDM). A new version will come out about four times a year and the version number is created using the last two digits of the year and the number of the quarter.

P.S. If you need training on Oracle Data Modeler, be sure to check out my online video training course along with my tips and tricks ebook. (HINT: Buy them now, and you may be able to deduct the cost from your 2016 taxes as an educational expense.)